Maid Servants
"Zamiel" in the Auckland Btar remarks : — The prejudice against domestic service is simply astounding, considering the facility with which employment is obtained and the largeness of the emoluments. It is an absolute reversal of the law of trade that this occupation .should be so poorly supplied, while every other class of female employment is so overstocked that .stout girls can be got to work eijrht hours aday at fatiguing callings for nothing. In all of the much-run-upon trades providing occupation for women, twelve months' service without pay is invariably insisted upon, and it is accounted a favour even to get admission on these terms. Though I humbly confess my incapacity to see it, there must be some badge of gentility about sewing and pressing corduroy breeches, and making up feminine: attire, or why do those adorable creatures whose instinct for the true, the beautiful, and refined we all ackowledge, prefer that to the persuit of those domestic duties in which their mothers are engaged, and which they acknowledge as their natural sphere whenever any simpleton in search "of domestic peace and comfort is fool enough to call one of them from the wort-room to preside over bis household?
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 36, 3 September 1885, Page 3
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